What does spurious correlation mean?
• SPURIOUS CORRELATION (noun) The noun SPURIOUS CORRELATION has 1 sense: 1. a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variables Familiarity information: SPURIOUS CORRELATION used as a noun is very rare.